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...goods like high-quality vodka and clothing. Those who have no dollars can only go to so-called komercyjne, or commercial shops, where some items are available at premium prices, or to state stores, where prices are stabilized but long lines and bare shelves are the rule. Gripes one taxi driver: "We now have three classes in this classless society...
...must deal with that question, along with all the other questions that feed into it, is Edward Irving Koch, 55, mayor since 1978 and, as Sydney Greenstreet said of Humphrey Bogart in The Maltese Falcon, a real character. If New York is a taxi, Ed Koch is its driver?quick-tempered, belligerent, opinionated, chatty, protective, frank and possibly nuts. He usually speeds, and sometimes he drives on the sidewalk. His enemies are "crackpots." To everyone within earshot he asks, "How'm I doing?" Two out of three of those surveyed have answered: good...
...long-term debt that it has built up to pay for new fuel-efficient jets. Pan Am was also looking for cash because in the first half of the year it sustained an operating loss of $108.5 million. Pan Am Chairman William Seawell doubts that the company will taxi up to profits again before the second half of 1981. In addition to selling off its headquarters, Pan Am has canceled service to two dozen international cities, and management layoffs are imminent...
...pilot who's handed the assignment of guiding flight 209 to the ground and Lloyd "Sea Hunt" Bridges plays the glue-sniffing, heavy-drinking chain-smoking director of the Chicago airport. Mixed in with the emergency, as one might guess, is a romance between the Air Force pilot turned taxi driver, played by the ingenuous Robert Hays, and the stewardess who takes over the co-pilot's chair from Kareem Abdul-Jabar. Julie Hagarty plays the sallow, teary type--she's sure to snag a nighttime sitcom role from this appearance...
...look forward to? Will I be able to find an apartment? No. Can I get married? That's a bit unrealistic without a home. What job will pay me enough to live on?" Says Manny Ender, 33, a toy exporter from Tel Aviv: "Even if you drive a taxi in America, at least you make enough for an apartment, entertainment and a visit to Israel once a year...